“Donald Trump’s attack on Pope Leo is the latest blow in an unnecessary split.” | Jake Meador in Dispatch Faith https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/dispatch-faith/catholics-evangelicals-donald-trump-pope-leo-xiv-charles-colson/

We Need a New ‘Evangelicals and Catholics Together' Movement

Donald Trump's attack on Pope Leo is the latest blow in an unnecessary split.

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Don’t Expect Trump’s Attack on Pope Leo to Spark a New Religious Left: The Americans flocking to the pews aren’t interested in the same old partisan politics | Maggie Phillips https://thedispatch.com/article/donald-trump-pope-leo-republicans-democrats-christians-catholics/

Trump Retribution Campaign Threatens to Unravel Indiana GOP: The president has targeted eight state senators who opposed redistricting | David M. Drucker https://thedispatch.com/article/indiana-senate-primary-trump-redistricting-retribution/

"Orbánism is not a new model, or 'wave of the future.' It was a tide of the past. And it’s good news that it’s receding." | Jonah Goldberg https://thedispatch.com/article/hungary-elections-orban-america-new-right/

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"With Trump’s interests diverging from the nation’s, the path forward depends entirely on what he decides to do—or post on Truth Social—next. And that is precisely the problem." | Micah Ables https://thedispatch.com/article/iran-war-peace-talks-why-negotiations-failed/

Hegseth’s War on Generals | Plus: U.S.-Iran negotiations may resume, Israel and Lebanon hold first direct talks since 1993, and Vance schools the Pope on, um, theology | Morning Dispatch https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/morning/hegseths-war-on-generals/

To Catch a Predator: Eric Swalwell and the return of #MeToo | Nick Catoggio in Boiling Frogs https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/boilingfrogs/eric-swalwell-democratic-party-me-too/

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"Trump wants extreme loyalty and he wants a lot of competence. Those two do not go together." | Sarah Isgur on The View

Is Washington the Most Embarrassing State in the Nation? A combination of incompetence and arrogance at least put it in the running | Todd Myers https://thedispatch.com/article/washington-state-energy-taxes/

Some universities have made changes after relentless Republican criticism. But will those changes last beyond Trump? | Greg Fournier https://thedispatch.com/article/higher-education-stefanik-trump-tilt/

"I would like to thank Pope Leo XIV for his service." | Kevin D. Williamson Robert Louis Prevost is a man for this season: https://thedispatch.com/article/pope-leo-donald-trump-idolatry/

"Today it’s flaming the pope, tomorrow it might be celebrating the death of someone he dislikes, the day after it might be bombing Iran back to the Stone Age." | Nick Catoggio in Boiling Frogs https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/boilingfrogs/donald-trump-pope-leo-xiv-catholic-church/

What Can a Hormuz Blockade Achieve? If serious combat resumes, U.S. forces will be stretched thin, RAND Corporation researcher Bradley Martin told The Dispatch. https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/morning/what-can-a-hormuz-blockade-achieve/

The Rise of the Anti-Manosphere: Introducing ‘The Gentlemanosphere' | Ari David Blaff https://thedispatch.com/article/manosphere-williamson-boys-men-health-brooks/

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"Though Donald Trump is a convicted felon nearly three dozen times over, in this case, he is not actually behaving like a criminal—he merely aspires to." | Kevin D. Williamson in Wanderland https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/wanderland/trump-iran-war-oil-strait-hormuz/

Trump’s NATO Threats Highlight Deeper Structural Tension: And Europe’s least bad option may be to go its own way | Benn Steil https://thedispatch.com/article/trumps-nato-threats-highlight-deeper-structural-tension/

Trump’s NATO Threats Highlight Deeper Structural Tension

And Europe’s least bad option may be to go its own way.

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Identity Politics Is a Problem for Conservative Christians Too: The term ‘Christian nationalism’ misses the real problems with some of the religious right | George Yancey https://thedispatch.com/article/christian-nationalism-identity-politics-christianity-maga/

Identity Politics Is a Problem for Conservative Christians Too

The term ‘Christian nationalism’ misses the real problems with some of the religious right.

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Do We Know Enough About Microplastics to Act? | Grayson Logue Experts work to fill research gaps on the health effects of microplastics as advocates push for regulation: https://thedispatch.com/article/microplastics-harms-environment-health/

Orbán’s 16-Year Reign Ends | Plus: Trump blockades the Strait of Hormuz, inflation is up, and Eric Adams is Albanian now | Morning Dispatch https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/morning/orbans-16-year-reign-ends/

Pope Leo’s Case Against the Iran War Is Not Political: His comments about the Iran war should be viewed in light of Catholic tradition | Dan Hugger in Dispatch Faith https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/dispatch-faith/pope-leoxiv-catholicism-iran-war/

"We could use a great scholar of identitarian autocracy. Ibram X. Kendi is not that scholar." | Kevin D. Williamson https://thedispatch.com/article/ibram-x-kendi-authoritarianism-book/

The New (and Worse) Bridget Joneses: Young women today still have the naivete of Bridget Jones in 2001—alongside apathy caused by technology | Elizabeth Grace Matthew https://thedispatch.com/article/bridget-jones-25-dating-young-women/

Come Sail Away With Me (in Sheboygan, Wisconsin): The Malibu of the Midwest on Lake Michigan’s western shore | Luther Ray Abel in Where I'm From https://thedispatch.com/article/come-sail-away-sheboygan-malibu/

Finding God on Sixth Avenue: Dorothy Day, joie de vivre, and a London mystery | Valerie Pavilonis & Stephen G. Adubato in Dispatch Culture https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/dispatch-culture/catholic-revival-new-york-london-gifs/

The Coming AI Superstorm: What Anthropic’s Mythos model means for our security | Dean Ball https://thedispatch.com/article/claude-mythos-anthropic-security-critical/

"As serious as a heart attack, as the saying goes, but more predictable." | Kevin D. Williamson Trump Is Anything but Unpredictable: https://thedispatch.com/article/trump-political-project-tehran-war/